result

With the amount of exposure he's had to visibly-infected toddling-colleagues we could be reasonably certain that the last couple of weeks' gripings were due to general viral malaise but it's nice to have it confirmed with the appearance of some vesicles. A pre-emptive nail-clipping the other day seems to have been perfectly-timed and the usual last-resort measure of popping him in between us to sleep is still working, for now.